At 02:08 PM 10/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
>This type of exhibit (i.e., retrospective of a living clothing designer)
>is by no means unprecedented--the 1983 Metropolitan exhibit of Yves Saint
>Laurent comes to mind; there have been others.
>
>Pat Roath
>Elizabeth Sage Historic Costume Collection
>Indiana University, Bloomington
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Pat,
Just because an institution has been stupid in the past is no reason
for any instution to be stupid at a later date. Isn't the preservation of
history most useful when used to educate the present for the future?
Wayne Hart
Museum of Valor